Article August 3, 1957 Issue

KEEP ERROR OUT

RUTH CHRISTIE NICHOLS

The importance of guarding the door of thought against intruding false beliefs and deceptions of the carnal mind is emphasized in the following words by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 210): "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full. There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness."

Christian Science teaches that physical problems and all discordant conditions result from wrong mental states; thus we see that we must guard the door of our consciousness well. We should instantly reject any suggestion of evil, fear, disease, sin, limitation, and the like, because such thoughts do not come from God, infinite Mind. Keeping error out of thought is usually easier than getting rid of it once it has gained admission. Through our study of Christian Science, we learn how to handle and destroy evil presentations by correcting them with opposite truths which heal and bless.

Students of this Science find that the most effective defense against the common ailment called a cold is to refuse to take it into thought as something real. When the symptoms associated with this difficulty are present, either in one's own or another's experience, the alert student of Science knows that matter is without intelligence or sensation. He knows that there is no truth in a diseased belief and that it does not belong to man; that it is nothing but a suggestion of a power apart from God. Knowing that all cause and effect belong to God and refusing to believe that mortal mind or matter can make any conditions for man will effectively prevent the development of a cold.

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